Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the land, it was the same. Four San Antonio draft boards, with a May quota of 36, produced nine men. Instead of 79, Denver found four. Los Angeles, with a quota of 793, would deliver only 170; the whole state of California would draft only 300 instead...
...Bank in New York shows that under all the bluster, Buenos Aires must use American credits to finance its steel and bullets economy. Coupled with the loan request came a demand for greater American meat imports. The loan should be turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope, the food concessions offered Argentina's satellite countries by Peron must be matched with make-do grants of consumers' goods...
Here & there the Old Vic proved disappointing. For a great repertory company, it had more than its quota of indifferent actors; there was no great distinction in their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
...smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...